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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, APRIL

1987.

Accused Airwoman Pines for Lover THE RIGHT HAT

In Prison Cell Awaiting Trial, She Dreads Reunion

Man

To

Refuses Make Charge

Paris, Mar. 25.

MME. Irene Schmeder, the French airwoman, charged

Gave Up Smoking JARROW MAY GET

To Win His Bride

Fifty years ago Mir, George Clark, who loved a pipe, of tobacco, gave up smoking when his sweetheart said she would not marry him so long as he was a smoker.

George and the wife-lley live in Sultan- terrace. Camberwell. B.E- celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.

with the attempted murder of her lover, Pierre mostly l'Allemant, who was shot in an aeroplane they were flying together, sits in her cell at the Versailles women's prison fretting and worrying about the lover who has refused to accuse her.

She shares the cell with a woman ac- cused of infanticide, but no word of her suffering escapes her, except in her rare letters or in the interviews with her bro- thers, who have special visiting privileges.

Mine, Schmeder is still deeply in love with Pierre J'Allemant.

Eating little, seldom speaking, she pines for the French airman, but all the time she dreads the inevitable meeting with him.

L'Allemant has stubbornly refused to take any

the p part in prosecution, but the couple will shortly con- front each other by order of the magistrate.

While she prays for freedomn Mme. Schmeder fears

SHOT MAJOR: INSURANCE

FIRM APPEALS

be

MPORTANT points affecting the law governing insurance policies will debated by famous counsel before

what freedom will mean for her. She can make no Master of the Rolls, Lord Wright, and

plans for the future. HUSBAND'S OFFER

Her husband has said repeatedly that he would take her back, but Mme. Schmeder feels that she cannot return after what has happened.

All her thoughts are of the past, on that last night

mare flight with the man she loves.

It was on December 20 that a plane bumped down

to land in a field near Villacoublay Aerodrome.

Lorde Justices Romer and Scott in the Court of Appeal in London,

ROLLING MILL

Labour Minister's Hint

MR.

TR, ERNEST BROWN (Minister of Labour) gave a strong hint to a Tyneside deputation last month that, at long last, something will be done for Jarrow.

Answering their demand for the establishment of a steel works, he

gave

them a pledge that "Jarrow will not be overlooked."

I understand however, that there is still no prospect of a steel works, but it is probable that a re-rolling will be opened in the near future.

The deputation would have liked a more definite assurance that a big scheme is to be started, but they came away with the feeling that a Ittle at least is to be done to relieve distress in the town.

IRON AND STEEL REPORT

Brown also explained that the report of the Tarif Advisory Com- mittee on the iron and steel industry would soon be available and that the Bill to deal with the areas generally will be

The der

deputation was received at the Board of Trade by Mr. Brown, acting

the

High next week.

distressed

for Mr. Runciman, who is ill.

The judges will have the task of re- viewing the sensational "Shot Major" law-Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P, who thus

suit, which was tried last year.

The occupants were. Mme. Schmeder and Pierre, challenging a judgment given by Mr. Justice Swift

l'Allemant

After a brief interval the plane took off again....and l'Allemant was left on the ground, suffering from bullet wounds, from which he has now recovered.

Mme. Schmeder. flew on ulane, crossed the Channel, and then crashed at Selsey, Sussex.

She was extradited from England, thien before the examining magistrate at Versalles sobbed out

And

her story,

FELL IN LOVE

She told how she had fallen in

MORTAL

COMBAT

The Royal Insurance Company, Limited, are in the King's Bench Divi- sion awarding £42,469 to Mrs. Agnes Emily de la Poor Beres- ford, of Crawford Street, Lon- don, S.W., niece and administra- trix of the estate of Major Charles William St. John Row- landson.

BETWEEN

KNIGHTS

love with l'Allemant white he was War Epic Reveals Son's

his

giving her flying lessons, how attitude had changed after she had returned from n visit to Italy.

Mime. Schmeder described uit woman, discovery of another and then .'. that she was about to become a mother.

And now Mme. Schmeder walts in her cell, dreading their first meeting since their grim flight to- gether.

Diary For Sleeping Beauty

New York, Mar. 25,

PATRICIA MAGUIRE, sleep- ing beauty of Chicago, knows nothing of what has been going on in the world around her for the past five years. All that time

-

Victor To Mother nut COINCIDENCE has

mother in touch with the man who killed her son. And an epic story of how two "knights of the air" met in mortal com- bat over the western front is retoki.

"The bravest of all," is the des- cription given by Colonel Ernst Udet, the German "ace," now famous for hls acrobatics in films, to the man, Lieutenant Charles Massdorp, nephew of a noted South African Judge, Sle Andries Maasdorp, whom he killed.

It was Udet's last flight, and took place during the German push In March, 1818,

For 18 years, Mrs, James Mansdorp, of Great Reinert, South Africa, his

been mystified how her son died.

Colnel Udet wrote a book on his 1 war experiences, and recently a Mrs Ernst read it; Struck with the name Maasdorp which occurred in the book she wrote to her friend, a daughter

she has been asleep, suffering of Mrs. Maasdorp. from a strange disease.

IN A TAXICAB

The major shot himself in a taxicab in St. James's Street, Piccadilly, on Aug. 3, 1034, a few minutes before his life Insurance polley lapsed through

non-payment of premiums.

It included Lord Londonderry and

found themselves on the same side for the Arst time in their lives."

After a jury had returned a verdict i that the major was sane when he shot himself, Mr. Justice Swift held that + the insuraper, company must pay 95:

£42,400 under the policy major's life.

ST The

The company are now appealing, their conteallon being that to pay out The Appeal Court judges will also on the policy is against publie policy. have to consider n cross appeal by Mrs. Beresford in connection with

shot himself.

the issue before the jury of whether This cellophane water-proof has or not the major was sane when he been adapted by Parisians against rain. It protects the gown without At the original hearing it was hiding its elegance. This transparent stated that if Mrs. Beresford's claim dress weighs only 45 grammes and succeeded the major's creditors might can be rolled up in a parcel as big as

a fist. be puld 15s, in the £.

A Life

That Meant

Much To Others

LAX THE BELOVED GREAT Christian died last month. He was an English sixty-nine years of age, and his name was William H.

"Why" replied the boy, "I'm not a kid now, so I don't say 'Give a little child a plaice","

The story of Colonel Udet, who was Patricia's mother, hoping her the victor in 62 aerial combats in the daughter will awake, keeps a war, mentioned how diary of what has happened in plane made for him.

"Both firing (writes the Colonel) those five

we fly at one another like two knights Lax. years President Roosevelt's election, repeal of with lances, prohibition, England's new Kings, other.. Mussolini's conquest of Abyssi- "He passes over me at about a nia, Hitler's climb to power in hand's breadth...

"Yonder is the man who is fighting Germany.

the battle of his life. He or I one of To-day Mrs. Maguire made anus must perish; there is no way out." other entry in the diary-the death of James Maguire, the sleeping beauty's father, in hos- pital, after a month's illness.

We fly at one an- For thirty-four

DISEASE AGES

WOMAN OF 26,

- NERVES STRAINED Five times they flew at each other. "My nerves are strained to break

years he had been associated with the Wesleyan Mission in Poplar, in the East End of London, for thirty-two of them as its super- intendent.

He was known and loved by thousands of poor people.. He knew

•

When his mother died, Poplar people showed wonderful sympathy to Lax.

To one woman, who said that he was looking sad, he answered:

"I am feeling sad, Mrs. Bandle. I've just heard that my mother han gone to Heaven."

"Well, don't worry, Mr. Lax," she sald sympathetically, putting her hand on lls shoulders, "perlaps she hasn't"

•

William Lax, the Good Spirit of

all about the sordid lives of his over-poplar, was born in Manchester in Ing point, but my head remains cool crowded area, Its vices, its braverics, 1880, became a minister of the

and clear. This time the must falf.

decision

"I take aim. I make for him. I decide to give way not an inch,

It's humours.

the

He stayed on in Poplar long after Wesleyan Church in 1895, and was he would have moved, elsewhere in mayor of Poplar in 1918.

ordinary way because he loved work. He told many stories of his work. Here are some of them:

Lax called on a coster who was li

laryngitis,

the

with

The caster was speechless, but his

wife sald kindly

"A sudden memory; I saw at Sens a duci in the air; the two machines made for one another, collided, and fell to the ground, fuselages smelled DEATH ENSUES together in one piece of metal. The wings continued and fluttered to earth

"Thank you, sir; I knew you'd be London, March 1.

on.

sorry because you, like Billle, earn "Like two wild boars we ran at your living with 'allerin'." A strange and rare disease one another. If he loses his nerve we. that aged a woman years in are both lost. These he swerves. In

There was an old man who lived this moment my trial of bullets hit alone, and with whom Lax spent much time, reading to him and pray-

few days has been investigated by British doctors

It is known as Simmonds' disease, nild the young woman who contracted

it died of old age in a few months.

luter

him.

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ITALIAN ISLAND FORBIDDEN

4

Volcanic Rock That Commands Tunis STRATEGIC POINT IN MEDITERRANEAN

Rome, Mar. 25. His aeroplane bends, turns on its Ing with him ag back and disappears in a huge crater At the time Lax was in touch with A BRIEF decree published is of paramount importance to all clouds of dust, smoke..

a kindly butcher, who said; "If ever "I have never tried to

ascertain you know of an old man or woman Powers in the Mediterranean were the

opponents I have who could do with a mutton, chop, basin. It declares: "It is forbid. den to fly over the island of Pantellaria and its relative ter- ritorial waters.”

who

man to the butcher. Some time

She was married and 20 years old brought down. He who fights may let me know. Her case was taken to the Royal Free not look upon the wounds he inflicts. Lax gave the address of the old -Hospital. She had given birth But this time I want to know." twins. After the birth of the second At a field hospital the Colonel found afterwards the old man died. He child she collapsed. Three days later that the dead airman was Lieutenant could hardly speak when he came

„developed a severe headache and was unable to sleep. After a further Maasdorp. He added, "I go backs to near, the end, but left the following

my quarters. One dare not bring message for Lax: two days sho became blind. Her one's thought to bear on the fact that

“Tell Mr. Lax, it's all right ... condition became gradually worst. each

down a I'm going to God...But be sure to evan for

One you bring

tall him that it wasn't, his

10

out

T

- Bespectacled At Billingsgate

Spectacles are a mark of illiteracy-in Billingsgate.

Discussing the ability of a fish porter to recollect facts, Mr. L. A. Byrne, barrister at the Mansion House, asked a Billingsgate fish merchant: ,"is he not altogether

illiterate?"

"Well, he's very near- sighted," was the reply.

"Then you think the wearing of spectacles evidence of illiteracy?"

"All know is that I knew him when he was very young, and I bought him his first glasses.”,

"

"An entirely new defini ition of illiteracy,' com. mented the smiling Lord Mayor.

France Finds New Fattest

Man

Paris, Mar. 25. Only a few days after the death of France's fattest man, a BUC. cessor was found to take his laurels. He is Jean Bonna who is reputed to have weighed only 900 grammes (orl. 98 lbs.) at his birth and began to get fat, like his predecessor, after the war.

Bonna, who to-day is one of Paris champion chefs, was strange case at his birth in 1892. The doctors felt sure he would never live, and his first twenty-eight days in this world were spent inside an "incubator. to keep him alive. He calls him- self "the canned baby," as a result of this first experience.

From 1007 to 1914 Jean Bonnu lived and travelled in French Indo-China

was known 11.5 and

one of the skinnlest men in the French colony he there. By the time the war came was just about normal weight, 171lbs. and about 5. ft. 10 in tall. He was accepted as a pilot and received the war cross and several citations for his bravery and skill in combat. "I was so thin," he reminisces to-day, "that I just passed between the bullets."

LOST ARM IN WAR Johannes Bethinier, France's fat- test man, went through almost the same experience. He lost an arm in the war and the loss seemed to upset his metabolle rate. He grew fatter and fatter until the day of his death on February 6, when he weighed 430 Ibs. Bonna seems to be on the same road to fame.

on Demobilized and put back normal rations as a cook in n restau- rant, he suddenly saw the arrow on the scales mounting swiftly. In 1023 be began to get worried, having risen to the new weight of 253 lbs. By 1931 he had risen ta 341 lbs.

use

Then Bonna decided he had better do something about it. * decided to co on a diet," he told reporterand decided not to eat any bread, drink sauces. It was a try- Any

I stood it for several ing experience. weeks and then went to a weighing machine. What a joke! While I had been on a diet I had gained almost thirty pounds. I assure you it wasn't funny, after all that suffering."

SAMPLE MENU After his trying experiences on a

but

diet, sufferings which many

Americans have experienced, without such doleful results, Jean Bonna went off the diet band wagon. "I gave up the hopeless game," he said with tears in his throat, "and decided to be happy at any rate. still eat sparingly however,

Asked what n sample menu of to-

used to

to devour food

day was for him, he confided, "Not much! An omlette of a dozen eggs to start with, an entrée of three camembert is my favourite and twe pounds of meat, an entire cheere ltres of wine. I'm not what you call a big enter. Old Marius of the mar kets, there

was a

for you! He Having dismissed his two predeces A map which accompanies the

sors in this casual manner, Bonna six miles.

showed that he was finally out for decree fixes the territorial Ilmits at

The island has now been heavily world's record. "I'm still for

from the world's record," he

sold fortified. Preparations for its defence

sadly.

They tell

me that there is an works were taken in 1035 during the

Indian Maharoh-who weighs 704- over the Abyssinian war. It is of

catch up

ami

tako great stategic importance to Italy's

record for France. 1.dont think I'll try for the air arm.

A bare volcanic rock, 62 miles from world's record after all, I think I'll let. Maharajah take the prize for the western extremity of the coast of Sielly, it is only 44 miles cast of the he can sit around.

with Ber all day sald African coast. It commands the vants fonning him and carrying him

ike

ost weight and her hair_began (mother ult of Men. Benal's interven~ į preaching, that saved me it was friction between Italy and the League-ounds. "But I won't take long to.

A9 D

to fall

After some months she was dis- tion, the Colonel, was brought into the mutton chops." charged from the hospital. Then she touch with Mrs. Mansdorp. In a Had a sudden relapse. Two days later letter to Mansdorp's sister he said, "I Children averywhere greeted him she was found in bed with her law should be grateful if you would send in the streets, often with port ques- set and her hands tightly clenched. me in whom Fate placed your tions o

or pieces of curious Informa- In five hours she died, g

life a photo of this dis-lon.

and brave warrior." One of these child friends

aher

the

the

Udet's skill

with nero to him in answer to a question great French military point of Bisorta, around. I've got to can my Kleiner

The decase, according to the Britis): mally des bed by Simmonds in planes enabled the wonderful The whether he was saying his prayers medical Journal, Lanect, was 1911. Although several cases have White Hall of Pitz Palu to be filmed. Occurred on the Continent, it is very He is head of the technical section at

ure in England United Press. the German Alt Ministry!!!

"I've dropped the fishy prayer. "The fishy prayer?" said Lax, whatever do you mean, Joey2"

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